(August 17, 2013 at 1:07 am)Thor Wrote: Also, no one makes outrageous claims regarding "leaders of the time".
Didn't Suetonius and Tacitus write about how Vespasian cured two men, one of whom was blind? There was a period of time when Romans claimed that their emperors were divine, and such claims of miracles would probably not have seemed so strange to them. We don't accept them today for the same reason we don't accept claims about Jesus... oh, wait.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
